The sugar apple tree is popular in many fruit salads, desserts and drinks in the south.The apples are green on the outside and white in the flesh.You can plant a sugar apple tree, but you need a sunny spot and a draining soil.
Step 1: There are sugar apple seeds that can be obtained.
If you have a friend with a tree, you can get the seeds from the fruit.You could buy seeds online.If you want to get seeds from a sugar apple, you have to wait a week before planting them.If you put them in the ground right away, they won't grow.Remove the big, black seeds from your sugar apple fruit.One week prior to planting, put them in a seed envelope.You don't need to wait before planting if you bought sugar apple seeds from a garden center.
Step 2: To speed up the growth of your seeds, soak them.
You can speed up the process by soaking your seeds.Wrap your seeds in a towel.The seeds should be soaked with water.The seeds should be placed in a bag with a paper towel.If you want to plant your seeds, soak them for three days.You can scarify the seeds.The seeds should be lightly sanded.For twenty-four hours, soak them in warm water.You can speed up the seed preparation process by using this method.
Step 3: You can find a sunny spot to start your seeds.
Since sugar apple is a tropical tree, you will want a sunny spot to start your seedlings.If you put your seeding tray in front of a south facing window, the seeds will get plenty of warmth and light.You need to install grow lights if you don't have a south facing window.
Step 4: Place the soil in the seeding tray.
At a garden center, you can get a seeding tray that is at least two or three inches deep and has drainage holes.You can fill the seeding tray with fresh soil from the garden center.Before planting the seeds, you want to make sure the soil is moist.If there is good drainage, sugar apple trees do well in most soil types.Avoid getting the potting soil sopping wet at this stage because they will not tolerate any water-logging.It should be moist.
Step 5: The seeds should be put in the ground.
The seeds should be planted two or three centimeters deep.They need to be one and a half centimeters apart.The plants need thirty days to grow.You could buy a sugar apple tree from a nursery.You can transplant the seedlings outside once they are mature.
Step 6: Water the sugar apple plants.
To keep the soil moist, spray the seeding tray with a mister.It is best to let the soil dry out between waterings since sugar apples don't like water-logging.You can stick your finger in the soil to see how much water is in it.You can spray the seedlings if they feel dry at a depth of one inch.The movement of air over the plants will help prevent disease.Symptoms of water-logging include yellow leaves, stunted growth, and fallen leaves.
Step 7: Ensure adequate light by rotating the tray.
All of the plants should be able to benefit from the south facing window when the seeding tray rotates every few days.If you are growing under a light, you should set a timer for fifteen hours per day and keep the light on for the rest of the day.You need to raise the lights as the plants grow.
Step 8: In warm climates transplant outdoors.
In a tropical or near-tropical climate, you should plant your sugar apple tree.It is possible to plant sugar apples in a dryer climate.Don't plant it outdoors in places with cold temperatures during the winter or at night.It will tolerate USDA zones.The lowest temperature range it will tolerate is 40-50 F.The plant will die if the temperature drops.
Step 9: In the spring, transplant your sugar apples.
It's possible to transplant your sugar apple tree in the spring when the temperature is between 73 and 94 degrees.You should look for a place that has plenty of sun and is not prone to water-loggging.
Step 10: An area that gets full sun is what you should choose.
Sugar apple is a tropical plant that thrives in South America, Asia and Africa.If you want to protect it from the wind, plant it in a sunny spot.It should be sunny at least 80% of the time.It will do better with more than eight hours of sunlight per day.
Step 11: Make sure the soil has good drainage.
Choose well draining soil for your sugar apple tree.It tolerates a range of soil types, so you could plant it in sandy, limestone or heavy loam soil.Ensure adequate drainage and avoid water logged soil.
Step 12: If you want to transplant a seedling, dig a hole.
Since sugar apple trees have shallow root systems, you should make the planting hole twice as wide as the root ball of the seedling.The root ball should be larger than the hole's depth.The root ball should be placed in the planting hole.Put them five meters apart if you are planting more than one.The sugar apple tree could be planted in a pot.
Step 13: To prevent disease, plant it near companion plants.
Companion planting can be used to prevent pests, fertilize the soil and ensure pollination of your sugar apple tree.Near star fruit and mango trees, you want to plant a sugar apple tree.Plants that attract beneficial insects and repel pests are what you want to plant underneath your sugar apple tree.There are two or three companion plants to put underneath the sugar apple tree.
Step 14: The sugar apple tree needs to be water every 12 to 15 days.
Water your tree frequently.Sugar apples are tolerant of the weather and will not lose leaves if it is very bad.You should stop watering if you are getting a lot of rain.They would like to get an annual rainfall of between 750 and 1,200mm.
Step 15: The first few years are a good time to apply a completefertilizer.
To get the tree to grow, you need a complete fertilization.An organicfertilizer can be used to improve the root system.You can use 3-10-10 to improve yield.If you have a young tree, you should fertilize it every six to eight weeks.The number of applications offertilizer should be reduced after the third year of growth.You should applyfertilizer five to six times in the first year of growth.Fertilization should be applied three to six times in the second and third years of growth.
Step 16: In the spring.
Prune your sugar apple tree in the spring to give it shape.It can get unwieldy if it grows many branches.Pruning and removing old fruit will give shape to the tree.Cut dead branches with your shears.The branches are growing too close to the ground.New life can be given to your sugar apple tree after ten years.